{"id":1399,"date":"2023-07-07T22:25:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/kelly-mcwilliams\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T23:32:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:32:12","slug":"kelly-mcwilliams","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/kelly-mcwilliams\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly McWilliams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kelly McWilliams<\/strong>\u00a0is a mixed-race writer.\u00a0<em>Agnes at the End of the World<\/em>\u00a0was a finalist for the Golden Kite Award, and\u00a0<em>Mirror Girls<\/em>\u00a0is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and Target Book Club Pick. She\u2019s written for\u00a0<em>Time<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Bustle<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> among other outlets. She lives in Seattle with her family. Her new book is\u00a0<em>Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1401\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-1356x2048.jpg 1356w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-1140x1722.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-920x1390.jpg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-575x869.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-380x574.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta-800x1209.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_McWilliams_Your-Plantation-Prom-Is-Not-Okay_9780316449939-Sadie-Trombetta.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly McWilliams\u00a0is a mixed-race writer.\u00a0Agnes at the End of the World\u00a0was a finalist for the Golden Kite Award, and\u00a0Mirror Girls\u00a0is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and Target Book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1400,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1399\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}